About the day » Sunday December 10, 1905Calender converter

• Anne Boonstra, Tietjerksteradeel (Friesland) († 1907)
• Albert Muntinga, Groningen († 1928)
• Huijgen
• Adriaan de Bruine, Wissenkerke
• Antje de Vries, Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hamelers, Maastricht
• Albert Lubbers, Dalfsen
• Anna Báder († 1908)
• Aimardine Marie Anne Gabrielle de Nicolaÿ, Paris († 1999)
• Adriana Petronella van Gils, Rotterdam († 1990)

• Bernardus Schrijver (0), Heino
• Hogeweg (0), Nijmegen
• Christoffel Mathijs van den Berg (1), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Battista di Giovanni Quarteroni (5), San Francisco, California
• Anna Catharina Kinschots (78), Loenhout
• Bernardus Schrijver (0), Heino
• Clarinda Peterson (62), Archbold, Fulton Co., OH
• Adriana DINGENOUTS (58), Breda, 3379, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Bakker (74), Beneden Veensloot gem. Meeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Reukema

• 1903 » Una Merkel, American actress († 1986)
• 1904 » Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak politician, President of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia († 1975)
• 1906 » Harold Adamson, American lyricist († 1980)
• 1906 » Jules Ladoumègue, French runner († 1973)
• 1907 » Amedeo Nazzari, Italian actor († 1979)
• 1907 » Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach († 2005)
• 1907 » Rumer Godden, English author and poet († 1998)
• 1908 » Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist († 1992)
• 1909 » Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer († 1990)
• 1910 » Dan Blocker, American television actor, played Eric "Hoss" Cartwright on Bonanza († 1972)

• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
• 1928 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (b. 1898)
• 1932 » Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1857)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
• August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
• August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
• September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
• September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
• November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

The temperature on December 10, 1905 was between -2.5 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.